stiffness

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Noun
  • Most prominent has been the hot competition to bring a hotel to the urban center, which led the city to choose two developers building separate projects after years of market indifference.
    Laura Kinsler, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
  • The quiet majority, by remaining quiet, gets to enjoy relative prosperity and the relative indifference of the state.
    MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.
    Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
  • But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • The grounds crew tests soil moisture content, court hardness wear and plant chlorophyll levels to dictate evening watering amounts.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • As such, prolonged use may reduce the surface hardness of tooth enamel.2 Studies in which hydrogen peroxide was used daily for up to six years in concentrations of 3% or less have reported only occasional and temporary irritation in the mouth.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • In its breadth and aloofness, Death to Order feels like a distant cousin of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s cavorting 1997 documentary about airliner hijackings.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • In short, any time the Obama administration has seemed to embrace a policy of regime change as heartily as the first-term Bush administration did, China has stopped supporting multilateral responses to regional and civil conflicts and pulled back to its earlier aloofness.
    Thomas J. Christensen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2015
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“Stiffness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiffness. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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